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Title: Producion numbers for Italian " First and Second Generation Fighters"
Post by: Viper17 on July 17, 2002, 03:16:28 PM

Fiat Cr.42. Total Number including Prototypes- 2,287
Fiat G.50. Total Number including Prototypes- 645
Fiat G-55. Total Number including Prototypes and write off's- 379
Fiat G-56. Total Number All Prototypes- 5

Macchi C.200. Total Number including Prototypes- 1,153
Macchi C.200bis. Total Number including Prototypes- 1
Macchi C.201. Total Number including Prototypes- 1
Macchi C.202. Total Number including Prototypes- 1,200?
Macchi C.205. Total Number including Prototypes- 290 with 42 for Egypt in 1948-49
Macchi C.205N. Total Number including Prototypes- 2

Reggiane Re2000. Total Number including Prototypes- 155
Reggiane Re2001. Total Number including Prototypes- 237
Reggiane Re2002. Total Number including Prototypes- 225
Reggiane Re2005. Total Number including Prototypes- 785

This proves that if Italy had produced 1 type from 1 company they would of had more of a chance in the long run. Insted of puting inadiquate types into the Field.

Title: Producion numbers for Italian " First and Second Generation Fighters"
Post by: cajun on July 17, 2002, 09:53:59 PM

Look at that... More Cr.42's were produced than any other italian fighter :D

Title: Producion numbers for Italian " First and Second Generation Fighters"
Post by: whgates3 on July 18, 2002, 03:26:45 AM

some of those numbers were low because the germans slow in delivering the damiler benz engines. i think i remember reading somewhere that there were 200 more RE 2005 airframes produced than finished planes due to engines not showing up

Title: Producion numbers for Italian " First and Second Generation Fighters"
Post by: gatt on July 18, 2002, 11:32:20 AM

Well, actually the initial batch of DB605A provided by the germans and the following italian production were more than enuff to build a quite large force of Series 5 fighters (C205, Re2005 and G55, that is).

The real problems were:
- italian high command stupidity and delay in choosing which fighter to produce,
- what FIAT did to push his fighter (the G55) or, better, to delay the production of Macchi fighters (yes, the Agnelli family is the same of 60 years ago),
- in the end, allied bombing of italian factories.

Its a sad story, the saddest part being a lot of young pilots fighting with old C.200, C.202 and some C.205 against B-17, Spitfires IX, P51, P38 and P47 :(